Struggling with heart failure and OCD anxiety; seeking shared experiences.

I am hoping you have a good cardiologist that you have confidence in .I imagine you are taking medication for your heart and monitoring your blood pressure at home . The mental health aspect does make things more challenging , involved and complicated. Perhaps having a good echo done of your heart might give a better idea of your heart ❤️ health . One of my favorite books for OCD is Brain Lock by Dr Schwartz .

I hope you are ok. Key to have good doctors and understand how to monitor and protect you heart health. Be well. Wishing you the best always

I can relate . I have not been able to reconcile with a close family member. My health is just so-so . I try when possible to make amends the best that I can , because no matter the age or health of a person you really never know when it could be the last day , the real end . This close relative also wished me to die , and I still try to make peace. I do not know if reconciliation will happen before passing on , but where there is still a breath of live in someone there is hope.

There is a fairly new heart medication that has been out less than three years called dapagliflozin , that might be worth a closer look for diastolic heart failure.

Most definitely not alone .It would be nice to keep this thread going and support each other with these different issues it does help make a positive impact 😊.

Very vindictive, he is an adult child of mine and lives about 400 miles away . He had to live in my home for about 6 months to recover from a surgery. And we did not get along . Very hateful remarks by him wanting me to die among other really horrible things. I would like to make peace, but on the other hand I feel we need more time apart to let nature run its course, I hope .I said some really bad things to him in return I am the parent I am supposed to set the better example. Some things I feel you never can make right ever again in extreme situations.

Every imaginable way of him wanting me to die he shared during his six months here , at some point I had to try to laugh a little to just him points for originality and try to diffuse the aggression.

Give him points for

Thanks for sharing, I can relate to that. I hope that someday, we get the closure we need. At the same time, yeah putting humor into it helps! As for me, I’d say that relationship with my brother were good up to the point. But recent events triggered my depression and insecurities. I graduated this past December 2022 with my PhD, and upon graduation, I was already grieving that studying would stop. I really do consider myself a learner by heart and taking that away really set me off on the wrong tangent internally. So I come home and start living with my family, just temporarily until I land a job. I talk to my brother, who had some honest advise on how I really do need to get out more, as according to him, I spent 6 years doing nothing to help my OCD. I mean other self-care things and that I hyper focused on that PhD too much. I took the advise too personally and lashed out at him, thinking he’d underestimated my struggle with OCD and how I was actually makinimprovements myself. I didn’t get marked as an alumnus by NOCD without reason. I was judged to be making good progress by my former therapist, enough to be even discharged. But transitions with OCD are very tricky. When I graduated with my BSc back in 2011, I didn’t even attend my graduation due to similar reasons. I even got suicidal then. Now back to the present. Once I lashed out at him, he started getting passive aggressive, throwing away all gifts I gave him in the trash, slamming doors, cursing, calling me a narcissist, talking trash about people with PhDs, breaking my property, and taking the last bit of everything left in the fridge. It’s all out war.

Thanks! That’s outrageous indeed, yeah I feel we do have the same issues. They’re very much cut from the same cloth. My brother is 24. Yeah not a little kid anymore. He most definitely has unresolved issues. Refuses to get help for his diagnosed ADHD. Thinks he’s got life all figured out and that he’s the best at everything. Even argued at me over how he thinks my field of applied mathematics is bullshit and that I wasn’t doing true mathematics. But, he hasn’t even earned his associates degree yet. I tried to help him out in the past, but he just doesn’t care.